nebula Posted August 26, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Lack of skilled workers threatens recovery On Wednesday August 25, 2010, 12:00 pm EDT By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers with specialized skills like electricians, carpenters and welders are in critically short supply in many large economies, a shortfall that marks another obstacle to the global economic recovery, a research paper by Manpower Inc concludes. "It becomes a real choke-point in future economic growth," Manpower Chief Executive Jeff Joerres said. "We believe strongly this is really an issue in the labor market." Read here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick-Parker Posted August 27, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 200 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 4,271 Content Per Day: 4.95 Reputation: 1,855 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/17/2021 Status: Offline Birthday: 06/03/1955 Share Posted August 27, 2010 I believe that this is being done by the unions in order to keep salaries high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted August 27, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,762 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted August 27, 2010 This also could be the result of turning from a manufacturing country to a service country. Skilled workers were lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgedrw81 Posted August 28, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,823 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 36 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/10/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted August 28, 2010 Even 30 years ago was difficult to get them. The skills are there but not the support is not there. Blessings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted August 29, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1,022 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 39,193 Content Per Day: 6.11 Reputation: 9,977 Days Won: 78 Joined: 10/01/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted August 29, 2010 A lot of this is because American youth were not interested in taking up these trades. My husband has tried to recruit several young people into these fields and has had little success. A lot of the problem is the "I want it now" culture that we live in. The young people do not want to put in the time it takes to be a journeyman and to get the proper training. Everyone wants to go into finance, marketing or psychology or whatever the career of the week is. It depends on who you are and where you live but, yeah, basically Americans have moved away from the trades. My company is having a hard time hiring machinists. A journeyman machinist in Houston makes upwards of $35.00 per hour and still there are not that many under 40 who want to pursue this as a career path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refugepsa91 Posted August 29, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 5,961 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 61 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/25/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted August 29, 2010 Oh the things I've heard coming out of my young families mouths. Things lilke we were taught that blue collar is out, that we have to get an education and work white collar. On and on it goes, about "those" kind of jobs are beneath them, because they are going to be better than that. I always just stare at them open mouthed. Most of the ones they hang out with are the exact same way. They are prideful and arrogant lately. I always ask them do you want a house? Your going to need a carpenter, plumber, electrician etc.... Do you want to drive a car? Your going to need a mechanic and body man. The same goes for almost every aspect of your life, if something breaks down we all need those skilled trades to keep us going. They just stare are me blankly....sigh...I give up, but my kids will NOT be raised to think the same way... Bottom line, there would be no "white collar" without the skilled labor of the "blue collar" worker!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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